The battle over a coastal California mansion that pits Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom against an 84-year-old Texas millionaire is now in the hands of a Los Angeles judge after closing arguments Friday that gave vastly different narratives of the superstar couple’s disputed real estate deal. Lawyers for entrepreneur Carl …
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Katy Perry’s camp rested their case Thursday in the wild trial over a Montecito mansion that the pop star and her partner Orlando Bloom once described as an “emotional purchase” they made while awaiting the birth of their daughter during the COVID lockdown summer of 2020. The 80-year-old businessman who …
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A sprawling, $15 million Montecito estate is at the heart of a bitter lawsuit pitting pop star Katy Perry against Texas multimillionaire Carl Westcott. The mansion has languished, largely vacant for the last two years — just a few doors down from Oprah Winfrey — waiting for a trial now …
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YouTube has suspended monetization on Russell Brand’s channels amid allegations of rape and sexual assault. Though Brand’s channels remain on YouTube, the Google-owned company has halted advertisement on videos by the comedian. “If a creator’s off-platform behavior harms our users, employees or ecosystem, we take action,” a YouTube spokesperson told …
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Katy Perry has cashed in on her catalog of hits, selling her stake in her master recordings and publishing rights to Litmus Music for a reported $225 million, according to Billboard. The deal covers the five albums Perry released for Capitol Records, starting with 2008’s One of the Boys and …
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O h, my God —look!” Olivia Rodrigo says. “I just parallel parked for you!” We’re sitting in Rodrigo’s black Range Rover in L.A.’s Highland Park, stopped outside her producer Dan Nigro’s home studio. Rodrigo has a killer late-July outfit on — short, summery floral dress; tall, brown leather boots; her …
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Few things in music are more daunting than following up a smash debut album, but Olivia Rodrigo has pulled off that feat with Guts. The follow-up to 2021’s Sour finds the singer-songwriter turning the glories and messes of young adulthood into undeniable pop-punk bangers. That’s not to say its success …
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One day in early 2010, the artist Will Cotton was scrolling through his email and found a message from someone named Katheryn Hudson. She wondered if some of Cotton’s 2004 paintings — a series called “Cotton Candy Clouds,” which depicted pinup girls laying nude in a pink sky — were …
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Songwriter Camela Leierth-Segura, best known for co-writing Katy Perry’s hit “Walking on Air,” has been reported missing after vanishing from Beverly Hills in late June. Police were notified of the Swedish-born Leierth-Segura’s disappearance in early August, over a month after friends and family were unable to make contact with her. …
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Katy Perry fans have been clamoring for new music from the pop star for a while now, and in an interview with Good Morning America, the singer revealed where she’s at in the process of writing new songs. “I haven’t put any new material out since my darling Daisy,” Perry …
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